Assuming you have been to a restaurant, you have experienced U.S. tipping culture, which involves giving a tip for the waiter or waitress’s service, typically 20% of the total price of your meal. Maybe less if the service was mediocre, maybe more if it was exceptional. This tipping culture comes...
On Wednesday, a television ad that was promoting President Donald Trump began airing on cable. The issue with this was that it was labeled as stating that the advertisement promoting Trump was paid for by the U.S. government. To explain further why this is an issue, there is a federal...
As a creative person who works in the field of writing, whether it be games, articles, or even music videos I know that it is a hard market to compete against AI. That being said, I do use it to help me get out of writer’s block as a push...
It’s common knowledge that Donald Trump had one of the most memorable political campaigns in the past decade. It’s caused one of the biggest modern cases of blind loyalty this country has ever seen with the Make America Great Again movement. This idea that America was better in the past...
I’ve mostly lived in places where there was public transportation that got you to where you needed to go. Most of those places were university cities and decently bigger than where I live now. The issues that I had to deal with were buses being late, not having bus fare...
Recently, President Donald Trump has made headlines once again, somehow; this time? Wanting to tear down the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His reason? Because the courts rejected him from placing his name on the building. President Trump was in an attempt to add his name to...
On September 10th, 2025, as most people know, Christian nationalist debater Charlie Kirk was assassinated at his own political debate session in front of hundreds of people, with footage of his death spreading like wildfire on the news and across the internet. That day the political landscape felt akin to...
On Tuesday, for a third time, the House voted 220-204 to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval. A few more Republicans joined Democrats’ voting effort to bring an end to the conflict....
The Kennedy Center’s downfall is, of course, a saddening travesty, but it is also an example of the consequences of organizations caving to political pressure. For decades, the Kennedy Center has been a figurehead celebrating the creative achievements of various Americans and hosting noteworthy performances that many would want to...
Over 2025 and 2026 the FDA has lost millions of dollars in their budget and thousands of employees in a move to cut costs thanks to Robert F. Kennedy and the Trump Administration. Thanks to these budget cuts there are now significantly fewer people checking the quality of the food...
Anyone who is willing to lie and protect a murderer and could potentially be the reason the murderer kills again should definitely be charged, and not just as an accomplice; they should be facing charges of tampering with evidence, compromising an investigation, and lying to police or investigators. There is...
25 years ago the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the world and took the lives of 2977 people. As we all know, these attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden, a Muslim al-Qaeda extremist, and with this public knowledge, Western views on Muslims changed for the worse overnight. To a...
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